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Pinocchio: The Origin Story
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Description for Pinocchio: The Origin Story
Hardcover.
Told as a story of cosmic beginnings, this version of Pinocchio is about the formative energy and magic that reside in the wood that becomes the boy. This version is also about life on the molecular level and what it means to think about our composition as human beings from the point of view of energy and cosmic matter. Born in 1975, Alessandro Sanna is one of Italy's leading contemporary illustrators. He has earned wide recognition for his work, which has appeared in the New York Times Book Review and the New Yorker. He is a prolific and popular author and has received many awards. He lives and works in Mantua, Italy.
Product Details
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
595g
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781592701919
SKU
V9781592701919
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About Unknown
Born in 1975, Alessandro Sanna is considered one of Italy's leading contemporary illustrators. He has earned wide recognition across Europe as an illustrator and author, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker. He is a prolific and popular creator of illustrated books for children and readers of all ages and has received many awards and had many exhibitions. He lives and works in Mantua, Italy.
Reviews for Pinocchio: The Origin Story
Alternating between panels and full- and double-page scenes whose bright, bleeding colors evoke tie-dyed fabrics, Sanna shows the proto-Pinocchio gathering companions and confronting a forest of trees and fire, a ravenous snake, and an enormous shark, before growing into a tree. It's a haunting and wholly original perspective on Collodi's classic that suggests that Pinocchio's mischievous spirit draws from a primordial, even immortal, source of energy.
STARRED REVIEW, Publishers Weekly In the mostly wordless pages of Pinocchio: The Origin Story (Enchanted Lion, 48 pages, $19.95), exquisite paintings by the Italian watercolorist Alessandro Sanna depict a series of mystical events that produced the bit of wood that the woodcarver Geppetto would eventually fashion into a marionette
which became a real boy
in Carlo Collodi's 1883 story Pinocchio. [...] Powerful and strange, this picture book invites contemplation...
Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal
STARRED REVIEW, Publishers Weekly In the mostly wordless pages of Pinocchio: The Origin Story (Enchanted Lion, 48 pages, $19.95), exquisite paintings by the Italian watercolorist Alessandro Sanna depict a series of mystical events that produced the bit of wood that the woodcarver Geppetto would eventually fashion into a marionette
which became a real boy
in Carlo Collodi's 1883 story Pinocchio. [...] Powerful and strange, this picture book invites contemplation...
Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal